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[Photo.86/2(041)] Duke and Duchess of Lhasa, with their youngest son, aged seven and the Lama son, 1939


A 1939 photograph. At the front are Phukong and Lacham Kusho, Duke and Duchess of Lhasa, with their youngest son, aged seven, between them and the Lama son. Behind are attendants in Mongol hats.

Part of a collection of 81 loose black and white photographs taken by Fleming Mackenzie while serving in Tibet in 1938-1939. From the Collections of Lieut.-Col. Fleming Mackenzie, donated by his daughter Mrs Ann O’Neill in 2022.